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Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Last year we showed the pictures of Virginia Frances Sterrett for N. Hawthorne's Tanglewood Tales. Now we show the illustrations for Old French Fairy Tales by Comtesse de Ségur. The illustrations werecommissioned by the Penn Publishing Company (1920).

At the turn of the 20th century, women illustrators, especially for children books, became more common. Be it Kate Greenaway, Rie Cramer, Anne Anderson, etc. more and more women found a job as illustrators. The academic training still was problematic and not equal for female and male students, and in most cases illustrating alone couldn't provide the livelihood. But nonetheless there were woman artists that became as popular as their male colleagues. Marie Hohneck certainly was one of them. Today mostly forgotten, she trained under Wilhelm Claudius, lived in Dresden and worked between 1885 and 1915.